Hmong in Laos and the United States

Culhane‐Pera, Kathleen A.; Cha, Dia; Kunstadter, Peter

doi:10.1007/0-387-29905-x_75

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“…The first group is wild herbs that grow naturally in the forest and sometimes include naturalized species. Another group includes the domesticated herbs, which are often exotic species in home gardens [100]. A couple of species may be closely related taxa with the same therapeutic property, but wild plants are thought of as more potent than domesticated plants.…”

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“…We asked local leaders and community members to point to recognized specialists and we selected 16 of them as our key informants [76,101]. Almost all informants were herbalists who used plants in their daily life or shamans who used belief and rituals related to plants in their practice [100,102]. The research protocol was approved by Chiang Mai University Research Ethics Committee with the certificate of approval number COA No.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Use categories followed Cook (1995) for non-medicinal categories [105] and the WHO Classification of Diseases version 11 (ICD-11) for medicinal categories (). We cross-checked exotic species with the species described in 16 ethnobotanical studies of Hmong to determine the sources of their knowledge, including Chuakul et al (2011) [35], Corlett et al (2003) [44], Culhane-Pera et al (2004) [100], Committee of Chinese Materia Medica (2005) [79], Lee et al (2008) [36], Nguanchoo (2014) [37], Nuammee (2011) [38], Pake (1987) [33], Pongsattayapipat (1993) [39], Spring (1989) [53], Srisanga (1994) [34], Srithi (2012) [40], Tichachart (2004) [41], Tovaranonte (1998) [42], Whitney et al (2014) [75], and Zheng et al (2013) [74].…”

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Exotic Plants Used by the Hmong in Thailand

Nguanchoo

Wangpakapattanawong

Balslev

et al. 2019

Plants

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Exotic species are an integral part of the plants used by many ethnic groups, but they usually receive little attention and have been considered alien to the ethnobotanical data. Here, we analyze the plants used by Thai Hmong refugees that are not native to their current habitats in Thailand. We attempt to understand the sources of this knowledge. Do people maintain the original traditional knowledge related to exotic species when they migrate to a new region, or does new knowledge originate from acculturation? We interviewed 16 specialist Hmong informants in Nan province, Thailand, about their traditional knowledge of 69 exotic species used. Acquisition of this knowledge has a long history; several species are the same as plants used by the Hmong in China and other countries, others are globally useful species which have become part of the pool of species that the Hmong have developed local knowledge about. However, migration also involves the integration of local knowledge from other cultures, and also adapts them to function in urban settings. This includes using closely related exotic taxa that replace some of the species they used in their original homelands. The migrants’ traditional knowledge in their new habitats is more complicated and also involves the development of local knowledge that is entirely new.

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Exotic Plants Used by the Hmong in Thailand

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“…This is most clearly illustrated in the private burial for those who take their life by suicide. A burial, according to Laotian culture, is normally an event that involves the whole community and ensures that the deceased member is clearly acknowledged and remembered by the community (Culhane-Pera, Cha, & Kunstadter, 2004; Gerdner, Cha, Yang, & Tripp-Reimer, 2007; Hayes & Kalish, 1988). In addition, this also provides support for the deceased individual’s family, ensuring that they are clearly integrated in the community.…”

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Understanding the impact of community on the experience of suicide within the Lao community: An expansion of the cultural model of suicide.

Yang

Lam

Vega³

et al. 2018

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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There is a dearth in the scientific literature examining community factors of suicide in a theoretically grounded manner, in particular for Asian American groups. This study used the cultural model of suicide to examine the experience of suicide for a Lao group in California. Interviews were conducted with focus groups and community leaders pooled from the Center for Lao Studies, and then coded using a direct content analysis, in tandem with an inductive approach. The results revealed areas in which the community had a notable impact and shaped suicide risk within the Lao group. The findings also highlighted the need for additions to the current cultural model of suicide to reflect the impact of these community factors. What is the public significance of this article?This study suggests that suicidal behavior within the Laotian community is informed by culturalspecific factors. Furthermore, this study points to the importance of understanding the impact of how community affects service use, in helping to prevent suicide and encourage treatment engagement within the Lao and other minority groups.

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